Fannie Lou Hamer : the life of a civil rights icon, Earnest N. Bracey

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Contents: Birth, cotton and childhood -- The slavery of sharecropping -- Cry the beloved parents -- Death of her parents -- Marriage, eugenics and adoption -- Apartheid in Mississippi -- The SNCC comes to Mississippi -- A new political activist -- Voting rights and freedom summer -- Enfranchisement and training -- The arrest and beating of Fannie Lou Hamer -- The rescue and aftermath -- The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party -- Preparing for the 1964 National Democratic Convention -- The great orator -- Continuation of a political struggle -- The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and a trip to Africa -- Speaking out loud at the 1968 Democratic Convention -- The end of activism -- Creation of a freedom farm -- The death of Fannie Lou Hamer

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